Story
We met through the Dean’s Scholar’s Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin, where Griffin studied Physics and Plan II (class of 2019) and Maike studied Math (class of 2020).
We were both very involved with DS and became really good friends through leadership in the program.
By the time Griffin graduated, we were best friends. But we were never more than friends.
After college, Griffin started a PhD program in Applied Physics at Stanford University, and we kept in close contact. The following year, when Maike graduated from UT, she too began a PhD program at Stanford—hers in Biology. We were randomly assigned as next door neighbors in graduate housing and the rest is history!